I recently fired up a Wiki at work, mainly to try Yet Another Tool to encourage my peers to document more of their work process:  What they do, and how they do it.  I've never been much of a Wiki user before, but now I'm hooked.  It seems all I lacked was a subject I wanted to Wiki about.  (Did I mention I love my job?)

Anyhow, the threads about D and HTML and DML got me thinking.  I'd really like to do my programming inside a Wiki!  The whole notion of "refactoring" code is implicit in the dynamic nature and easy restructuring of Wiki content, not to mention the effortless self-indexing.  I'd love the D compiler to be able to be invoked a suitable places wihtin the Wiki tree, and have the compilation results for the currently viewed page be placed either inline with the code or in a parallel column.

So, should there be a version of the D compiler that can be called via CGI?  Or maybe as a Zope object?

The idea of having HTML be a "native" source file format for D may have many such possibilities.

Of course, I haven't thought this all the way through yet.  I'm still pondering aspects of testing and debugging that may be problematic.  But the idea of having "import blah" be a link to the source for "blah" is fascinating, especially if it is hooked in to the D module database.  I also see room for backend hooks to versioning systems (some Wikis already include elaborate diff and versioning capabilities).

Mainly, I'd like my browser to be my IDE, and I'd like to be able to work on my project from anywhere in the world (or hire anyone anywhere to help).

So, anyone for a Dwiki?  (What's a "Dwiki"?  Five bucks, same as in
town.)


-BobC

Robert W. Cunningham wrote:

> I recently fired up a Wiki at work...
> [snip]
> So, should there be a version of the D compiler that can be called via
> CGI?  Or maybe as a Zope object?


I'd think you'd just need to set up paths and permissions on
the server hosting the CGI, have it execute the equivalent of
Perl's:

$results = `dmd -options -options source.d`;

...and pretty up the results. No?

-Russell B